Improvement in treating fruit-trees to prevent the ravages of insects



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SAMUEL JJEVERETT, or MAHONEY CITY, PENNSYLVAN A.

Letters Patent No. 111,185, dated January 24, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN TREATING FRUIT-TREES TO PREVENT THE RA VA GES OF INSECTS, &c.

The Schedule referred to in these. Letters Patent and making partof the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. EVERETT, of

Mahoney Gity in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvernent inthe Treatment of Fruit-Trees and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable others pint coal-tar, one pint pine-tar, one pint salt, oneskilled in the art to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in the treatment of fruit and other trees for preserving them from the ravages of worms, grubs,

and insects; and p i It consists in combining the ingredients hereinafter nanred,.-for applying to the tree, in the manner described.

In carrying out my invention and discovery, I make use of the following ingredients, in about the proportions and manner described, for forming a wash orfirst application to the tree-orGOnipound No. 1-viz: one 3 pound of. salts of potash, one-half pound of salts of} soda, one-half pound of sal-soda, dissolved in three;

gallons of boiling water; Whenso disposed, stir'in three pounds oiltallow or grease of any kind.

Keep

this compound boiling and well stirred until all sedimcnt'is deposited and themixturc becomes clear, after 'be stirred as it is used,

can be conveniently reached.

I next applya compound for destroying or expelling grnbs, worms, and insects, composed of the following ingredients, and numbered 2, viz: To twenty gallons of rain-water add two pounds of hartshorn, one quart of soot, one quart of tanners oil, one and one-halt fourth pound alum, one-fourth pound red pepper. This compound should be allowed to stand about two weeks, and should be well stirred every day, and should A quantity of straw or hay is saturated with this compound and placed in contact with the roots of the tree after the earth has been removed.

Thislatter compound may be successfully employed for preparing seed for planting, and. fo-r protecting growing vegetables; but I designtli two compounds to be applied to fruit-trees in the manner described above.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat-' ent 1. The above-describedmode of treating fruittrees, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The compounds No. 1 and No. 2, substantially as and for the purposes herein described.

SAMUEL J. EVERETT.

Witnesses 1 M. M. 'Kn'rlvnn, F. Barman. 

